I go on a "Bunny Blast" each January when I am back in Wisconsin. It is a one day rabbit hunt where you form teams and spend eight hrs out hunting then come back to the club-house for the weigh in.
Maybe the Fishing sport can adopt such a program for itself.On several occasion competitors have been caught stuffing lead weights in "various" rabbit orifices and even injecting them with water. So now all rabits have to be skinned and gutted before the weigh in...it's a sad day....
Obviously completely oblivious to what these tourney's do to help preserve the fish industry through education, sponsorship, research, and conducting local talks. They have a higher impact on cleaning up the waterways than almost any single entity out there.
Education is key to understanding, I would bet that even most ppl on the forum even know what our eco system looked like on this continent 500 years ago. I can openly and honest say I do not. But I can do the best I can with where I find myself today and do the best with what I have and learn to make it better. Reversal may net be an option and in all likelihood is not unless everyone want to leave the continent.The two previous posters are obviously oblivious to the massive ecological damage done by the Largemouth Bass due to its being stocked into areas it's not native to. The fact that the stocking has been done by "official" agencies, and the fact that the stocking began so long ago that nobody alive today can remember what our ecosystems were like before the invasion seems to justify it in some peoples' eyes. Their eyes are closed of course.
My post wasn't in reference to your views on the ecosystem, it was in reference to the term you used to describe those who participate.The two previous posters are obviously oblivious to the massive ecological damage done by the Largemouth Bass due to its being stocked into areas it's not native to. The fact that the stocking has been done by "official" agencies, and the fact that the stocking began so long ago that nobody alive today can remember what our ecosystems were like before the invasion seems to justify it in some peoples' eyes. Their eyes are closed of course.